The Leader weekly poll - parenting payment

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Online Editor

Jan. 4, 2013, 3 p.m.

Tighter restraints on the parenting payment will see around 80,000 single parents, mainly mothers, forced off their pension and moved on to the dole once their youngest child has turned eight, leaving the families up to $223 a fortnight worse off.

The Leader weekly poll - parenting payment

Payments to single parents have been cut - do you think it's fair? Photo: Fairfax

Tighter restraints on the parenting payment will see around 80,000 single parents, mainly mothers, forced off their pension and moved on to the dole once their youngest child has turned eight, leaving the families up to $223 a fortnight worse off.

This week we ask our readers if you think the cuts are fair to single parents?

Last weeks results: Do you think rangers and the public are at risk from new laws allowing hunting in national parks?